Devil’s Den

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This location was discovered during the depression while the CCC were building the forest road. Over the next seventy years collectors discovered many of the finest alpine quartz specimens from North America here, making the Devil's Den a true classic locality. Take Mt. Tabor Road from Danby, park at Devil's Den picnic area, walk north along road to outcrops on east side of road. Excellent smoky quartz and other minerals are found in pockets in the local schist. https://www.mindat.org/loc-69594.html

Albany’s South End, Historic Dumping Grounds

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Thematic Albany\'s South End, Historic Dumping Grounds

This colorized LiDAR Hillshade of elevation of the South End shows the filled in gorges in Albany South End that were used until the late 1960s for dumping trash and debris from the Empire State Plaza demolition.